I am interested in manuscripts focused on late-nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century literature as well as literary theory and print culture. Particular emphases include British and American literature, modernist and transnational studies and works that consider issues of genre, aesthetics, and literary history.
Recent noteworthy trade titles from the list include Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, by Seth Lerer and Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, and Political Idealist, by Lois Gordon.
Several titles from our literary studies list have recently won awards, including Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity, by Christine Froula, Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation, by Ato Quayson, and Cosmopolitian Style: Modernism Beyond Nation, by Rebecca Walkowitz.
Columbia University Press is also the publisher of the Wellek Library Lectures series. Authors from this series include
Our journalism list, which includes the Best American Magazine Writing series, focuses on books for course use and the history of journalism.
I welcome manuscripts aimed at both trade and scholarly audiences, including books for course use and reference works.
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